Sorry kiddos, life isn't always fair.

Thousands of little kids across Canada learned a valuable life lesson this week: your favorite team will always break your heart.

The Vancouver Canucks owe some of their youngest fans a major apology after first giving them tickets to Sunday’s Heritage Classic game against the Ottawa Senators and then cruelly snatching them away.

So, how did the mix up happen?

Earlier this week, the Canucks offered 1,100 minor-league teams the chance to win tickets to Sunday’s game. According to the CBC, about 300 teams entered the contest hoping for a chance to win. Instead of getting a standard response thanking them for entering the contest, they received an email telling them they were winners. Because of the glitch, about 3,000 young hockey players were told they had won.

Which was so not the case. The blunder left at least one coach, Anthony Bucci, with the difficult task of informing a bunch of eight-year-old kids that they wouldn’t be going to the game after all. They were all very sad.

“[The players] were really happy to go and excited and jumping up and down. And then I had to tell them that, ‘Hey, we’re not going now. They took the tickets away,'” said Bucci.

“I was excited to go, but now I can’t,” [said Jayden Bucci].

“I’m disappointed too,” said player Brenden Smallenberg.

So, no matter how terrible your favorite team has been this season, at least they haven’t been out crushing the hopes of their youngest fans.

To make up for the error, the Canucks have promised that each team will be offered tickets to a future home game.

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